GPUG Unveils ‘Share My Code’, an Experiment in User Submitted Dynamics GP Customizations

During the opening day of GPUG Summit 2011 in Las Vegas, the organization unveiled the launch of a member service that could benefit any Microsoft Dynamics GP user bold enough to get their hands dirty with customizations and scripts submitted by other users and partners. Called Share My Code, the self-described "code sharing science fair" is live now.

GPUG Director Kim Peterson described Share My Code as a portal where people can upload and download custom GP code. "Let's say someone is using SmartList Builder, and they want to have it do something," she said. "We hope to build up this machine, so that they can go in, do a search for what they want to do, and then be able to download the code for it."

Pam Misialek, senior product manager for Microsoft Dynamics GP, added that it's a newtwist on the sandbox concept, where developers and partners go to "play."  While there have long been other web sites to download scripts and custom code like Mibuso, DynamicsUser.net, and GPWindow, this is the first with an official endorsement of any kind.

"For years, we've had customers and partners wanting to share things, and partners knowing that someone else has built it before, but they didn't have access to that," she said. "They wanted Microsoft to do it, and we were never able to provide that. So, there's no place now where they can share those things. It offers a huge amount of value."

Misialek lent GPUG a hand on the project mainly, she said, with advice on making sure it had the proper ...